What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0525 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-4
42
16.5%
GS-5
107
42%
GS-6
64
25.1%
GS-7
33
12.9%
GS-8
8
3.1%
GS-9
1
0.4%
255 General Schedule hires. Hires under other pay plans (wage grade, senior executive, and the excepted schedules) are not shown here.
Where it is hiring
Top agencies
| Department of Defense | 208 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 29 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 10 |
| Department of the Army | 6 |
| Department of the Air Force | 5 |
| Department of Justice | 3 |
| Presidio Trust | 1 |
Top states
| Missouri | 6 |
| Virginia | 5 |
| Georgia | 5 |
| Washington, D.C. | 3 |
| Oregon | 2 |
| Ohio | 2 |
| California | 2 |
| Arizona | 2 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 85% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 262 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Accounting and Budget group (0500), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Financial Clerical and AssistanceSeries 0503 · 852 hires
- Tax ExaminingSeries 0592 · 823 hires
- Financial Administration and ProgramSeries 0501 · 712 hires
- Budget AnalysisSeries 0560 · 447 hires
- AuditingSeries 0511 · 418 hires
- AccountingSeries 0510 · 338 hires